This study investigated the effects of mobile-phone-type radiation on the cerebral activity of seizure-prone animals.

When rats transformed into an
experimental model of seizure-proneness by acute subconvulsive doses of picrotoxin were exposed to 2h GSM-modulated 900MHz radiation at an
intensity similar to that emitted by mobile phones, they suffered seizures and the levels of the neuronal activity marker c-Fos in neocortex, paleocortex,
hippocampus and thalamus increased markedly.

Non-irradiated picrotoxin-treated rats did not suffer seizures, and their cerebral c-Fos counts were
significantly lower. Radiation caused no such differences in rats that had not been pretreated with picrotoxin.

We conclude that GSM-type radiation can
induce seizures in rats following their facilitation by subconvulsive doses of picrotoxin, and that research should be pursued into the possibility that this
kind of radiation may similarly affect brain function in human subjects with epileptic disorders.